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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a
nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a
"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
initiatives more successful? Can such an application of
science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable,
necessary or impossible?
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rshow55
- 09:02am Oct 16, 2003 EST (#
15129 of 15136) Can we do a better job of finding
truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have
done and worked for on this thread.
A lot of interesting posts have gone down (from a lot of
points of view) since 14394- 7 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.7FggbbL8OeL.2789261@.f28e622/16104
There are promises one makes that one doesn't have to keep.
Everybody knows it - or should - and the culture tries to
teach that point from an early age. A classic of that teaching
- with limitations that have concerned me and lchic - is .
Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr Seuss 1940
Has this thread been like that egg? Have lchic and I
laid an egg ?
I've been asked to do a mission statement . For
something that takes up a lot of life (and this thread has
been a prison for me - and has permeated my life, since
September 25, 2000 ) - there are many purposes - many missions
- that have to be handled in turn.
. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-13 - was
condensed and set to music by the Byrds as Turn, Turn,
Turn http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~harel/cgi/page/htmlit?Turn_Turn_Turn.html
I've been thinking hard about mission statements. We're at
at time where we have to deal with a paradigm change http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7726f/360
If people felt forced to confront the muddles set
out in this and many other Dowd pieces - and were able
to do so - that paradigm shift be would be accomplished.
Bewitched, Bothered, Billy-Goated By MAUREEN DOWD http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/opinion/16DOWD.html
We're close enough that it is imaginable that this
paradigmatic shift in standards could become widely
accepted.
. When it matters enough - it is in the
public interest that people check facts and relations - in
ways that can be explained - in as much detail as the
explaining takes - in public.
If people knew that - and felt that way - the
world would sort a lot of things out for the better.
People should know how to do the things that checking
takes, by now. Sometimes - "sound bites" work - but when
details matter enough - crossreferencing - and the patterns
that actually work in courtrooms - have to be used. And
technically, they now can be.
lchic
- 09:04am Oct 16, 2003 EST (#
15130 of 15136) TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
There's a focus today on a simple transport system that's
miscalculated : wind force, vehicle speed, distance.
If a simple transport system can 'go wrong' .... begs the
question:
Wouldn't the USA be better deploying resources into the
homeland to improve the quality of local transport navigation
and monitoring --- rather than being too 'pro-active' outside
it's boundaries.
If a boat service ought to have been terminated due to
unusual external conditions .... or .... human-internal as in
substance/liquor ...
then how can the safety of the homeland people be best
improved.
Awaiting the outcome of the Bloomsberg Inquiry.
fredmoore
- 09:14am Oct 16, 2003 EST (#
15131 of 15136)
Question: 'Wouldn't the USA be better deploying resources
into the homeland to improve the quality of local transport
navigation and monitoring --- rather than being too
'pro-active' outside it's boundaries.? '
Answer:'Confucius say: when ass-kickers (unless they have
one-leg) are about, wise man does not put head in sand!'
lchic
- 09:16am Oct 16, 2003 EST (#
15132 of 15136) TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
"Once reasonable reason to suspect a mistake exists, it
should be morally forcing to check whether the mistake has
been made or not." Robert Showalter (Guardian - Paradigm Shift
Thread)
lchic
- 09:21am Oct 16, 2003 EST (#
15133 of 15136) TRUTH outs ultimately : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
If airports monitor weather, 'talk-in' planes, and close
airports as necessary ..... it raises the question - why
aren't those piloting 'other transport forms' given the
benefit of 'techno-whiz' decision making systems such as air
traffic control (advice).
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